1st Edition
The Baltic States And The Great Powers Foreign Relations, 19381940
By David Crowe
Copyright 1993
264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
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This is the first complete account of the diplomatic relations and military steps leading to Estonia's, Latvia's, and Lithuania's forcible absorption into the USSR in 1940. David Crowe—making use of recently opened archival sources—traces the Baltic states' relations with the Soviet Union, Germany, Poland, Great Britian, France and with one another from 1917-1940. He starts with an overview of... Read more
Preface and Acknowledgments -- A Note on Currency -- Seeds of Discord: 1918–1938 -- The Third Reich and the German Minorities Question (March 1938–March 1939) -- The Anglo-Soviet-French and German-Soviet Discussions of 1939 -- Stalin, Molotov, and the Forced Mutual Assistance Negotiations (September–October 1939) -- The Third Reich and the Baltic German Exodus (September 1939–January 1944) -- The Winter War and the Polish Refugee Crisis (November 1939–May 1940) -- The Soviet Conquest and the Absorption of the Baltic States (May 1940–August 1940) -- Epilogue: The Bitter Road to Independence (August 1940–October 1991)
Biography
David M. Crowe is professor of history at Elon College.
